The French cartoonist, who died Thursday August 11 at the age of 89, leaves behind a rich humanist heritage full of tenderness, poetry and humor. Fine lines of Little Nicholas drawn in ink, on the sublime covers of the New Yorker colored with watercolors, through his drawings in the French press: an anthology of his works has arisen on Twitter, shared by personalities like Emmanuel Macron, among many other tributes…
Sempe pic.twitter.com/xGYQ3cpBVm
— Pierre Lepelletier (@PierreLepel) August 11, 2022
Sempé was the drawing, it was the text.
It was the smile and the poetry.
It was sometimes the tear in the eye of laughter, this evening, it is of emotion.My thoughts go out to his family and loved ones. pic.twitter.com/YBefhf6I7j
— Élisabeth BORNE (@Elisabeth_Borne) August 11, 2022
Sempé is no longer there, but his drawings will remain timeless. They accompanied me to Beirut, to Paris, to New York. With tenderness, poetry and mischief, a humor that unfolds to infinity and absolute freedom, he taught us to look at the world with the eyes of a child. pic.twitter.com/jmeogzZ2mX
— Rima Abdul Malak (@RimaAbdulMalak) August 11, 2022
Jazz, tender irony, the delicacy of intelligence. From Petit Nicolas, via Monsieur Lambert to the walkers of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Jean-Jacques Sempé had the elegance of always remaining light without anything escaping him. pic.twitter.com/KOQPPIsn7A
—Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) August 11, 2022
Jean-Jacques Sempé has just died at the age of 89. He was the father of “Petit Nicolas” with René Goscinny. But he had also produced more than 110 covers of the prestigious “New Yorker”. Here are four. pic.twitter.com/GqrxiPA03X
— Cyril Petit (@CyrilPetit) August 11, 2022
Sempé’s New York… pic.twitter.com/v6ttqvYpfh
– Eva Roque (@roqueeva) August 11, 2022
Sempé has died.
No one like him has pictured the human spirit with so few lines. My all time favourite.
Good by Master,
Thank you so much. pic.twitter.com/rDTdNYrVKU— Jordi Lafebre (@jordilafebre) August 11, 2022
Always subtle, never mean, always ironic, never cynical, always tender, never cruel. #Sempe pic.twitter.com/E4L4jUpw4u
— Michel Mompontet (@mompontet) August 11, 2022
thank you sir #Sempe for making us fly with poetry and humour. pic.twitter.com/4zyvoWxemB
— Air France Newsroom (@AFnewsroom) August 11, 2022
The great Sempé pic.twitter.com/h9eGHhKJm9
— Philippe Corbé (@PhilippeCorbe) August 11, 2022
Sempé passed away at the age of 89. The great designer of little Nicolas preferred drawing to speech and he loved cats… pic.twitter.com/Cz6S964c9e
— Nils Wilcke (@paul_denton) August 11, 2022
while looking for stuff on Sempé, I discovered this series “how we catch a cold in Paris” and I would have liked variations in all the cities again https://t.co/lvoGFz4SO3 pic.twitter.com/zP6xWKqhjU
— Elisa Braun (@ElisaBraun) August 12, 2022
“I happened to become, at times, reasonable but never adult. »
Little Nicolas is an orphan,
I remember the drawings that my dad, with a smile on his face, showed me when he read Le Figaro or l’Obs found in a train… pic.twitter.com/POeiSFbfWc— Thomas CHAMBON (@tomchambon) August 12, 2022
Heartbroken, Sempé, the illustrator is dead. Little Nicolas is an orphan. His drawings marked my childhood, always immersed in his books. I think we all have a bit of Nicolas, Alceste, Clotaire, Agnan in us… who was your favorite? https://t.co/62fUE1LZU2 pic.twitter.com/qtSbVhjKSF
— Ophelie Janus (@OphelieJanus) August 12, 2022
So wonderful ❤️❤️❤️ #Sempe pic.twitter.com/EHEwYJQGAN
— Matteu Maestracci (@MMaestracci) August 11, 2022
I always think of #Sempe when I visit an archaeological site: pic.twitter.com/7XSHocU2vo
— Olivier Varlan (@VarlanOlivier) August 11, 2022
Tributes to Sempé.
A tall man. pic.twitter.com/EH0ZMPkGju— Alister (@SchnockRevue) August 11, 2022
Sempé’s cats pic.twitter.com/cnewVclSsC
— Aurélie Casse (@AureCasse) August 12, 2022
“My characters aren’t tiny, it’s the world that’s big. » Sempe pic.twitter.com/WcHekKfBo9
— Ariane Chemin (@ArianeChemin) August 12, 2022
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